Fun with Cars

My name is Robert. And I admit it. I Love Cars!

I didn’t come from a “car family,” but somewhere in my youth I got the bug. I bought my first car from paper route money when I was in high school. It was a 2 cylinder baby blue Fiat 500 – yup, an original one – that I bought in 1965 for $500. Using our standard inflation rate that means I paid $6,020.38 in 2018 dollars for it. Whoa!

I painted a white racing stripe right down the middle and drove that thing everywhere. I lent it to a girlfriend in college and it came back rolled up in a little ball in the back of my uncle’s pickup truck. She was fine but our relationship ended up like my poor Fiat 500.

SCCA Track Nights – I just drove my first two at the Auto Club Speedway in Fontana, California, and at the Streets of WIllow, WIllow Springs International Speedway. Super fun with the “Little Yellow Miata That Could!”